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...The giant Che Guevara mural which used to dominate a university entrance building was long gone when I returned last month....
...Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas director at advocacy group Amnesty International, called the situation “very worrying”....
...In response, opposition leader Juan Guaidó and the biggest parties in his coalition have said they will boycott the election, arguing it will be a sham....
...Born in 1960, he grew up outside Buenos Aires in a shack without running water where pictures of Juan and Eva Perón adorned the walls....
...There is a revolutionary too: Che Guevara making speeches recorded in Havana before his fateful last trip to Bolivia to stir revolt....
...This leftist, veteran British journalist has been a staple of Latin American reporting since scooping the death of Che Guevara in 1967. 2....
...On the walls of his home, alongside a photograph of a smiling Che Guevara and other leftwing icons, Padre Paco shows me a framed letter from Pope Francis, sent to him in April 2013, which praises his “courage...
...More on top of things is Yadira Guevara-Prip’s hyper-articulate teenage lesbian who becomes touchingly besotted by an older straight woman (Dascha Polanco, another face familiar from Orange is the New Black...
...A week ago, Juan Requesens, a young opposition lawmaker, was bloodied after being attacked by a socialist militant in a fracas....
...The ELN was founded by radical Roman Catholic priests and Marxist intellectuals inspired by Cuban revolutionaries, such as Fidel Castro and “Che” Guevara....
...Che Guevara wore a Rolex; Fidel Castro wore two....
...Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday that, after two years of back-channel talks, his government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) – the country’s second-largest Marxist rebel...
...Posters of leftist icons such as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez have been taken down from the palace walls....
...He then returned to Peru and worked at the central bank, before going into exile during the dictatorship of General Juan Velasco....
...“Instead of government we had a stage,” howls Che Guevara in the rock opera Evita, “instead of ideas, a prima donna’s rage”....
...Colombia’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), said on Wednesday that it is willing to hold peace talks with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos, fuelling hopes the...
...Almost 20 years after his death, Escobar’s son -born Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, now named Sebastián Marroquín-, has launched a clothing line, “Escobar-Henao”, which appears to be gaining adepts in the US,...
...“Colombia is interested in offering its expertise,” Juan Carlos Pinzón, the country’s defence minister, says....
...At one regional summit, King Juan Carlos of Spain famously asked him: “Why don’t you just shut up?” At home, Chávez’s governing style became more impulsive and authoritarian....
...This week, Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, and senior Farc commanders announced they had agreed to a “road map” for formal peace negotiations....
...Robert Redford, producer of The Motorcycle Diaries, the 2004 film about the early days of Che Guevara, visited Havana to give a private screening for Guevara’s widow and children....
...When word reached Juan Carrizo that Hurricane Katrina had struck New Orleans on August 29 2005, he reacted with military precision....
...An exception was Juan Román Riquelme, who publicly objected to the underhand manner of Basile’s removal and quit....
...Juan Manuel Santos, defence minister, said the mission was a success. “It shows the very high quality and the professionalism of the Colombian military forces,” he said. “It’s like a movie....
...Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s defence minister, described the rescue operation ”as one seen in films”....
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